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Tuesday, 4 July 2017

Dahr Jamail on abrupt climate change - 07/04/2017

In
Antarctica, scientists were stunned to find rainfall and a melt area
larger than the size of Texas in 2016. (Photo: Echinophoria / Getty
Images)

As
President Donald Trump announced the US withdrawal from the Paris
climate agreement, NOAA [National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration] released data showing 2016 saw the biggest
annual jump in atmospheric CO2 levels on record,
coming in at nearly double the average pace.

And
the records continue to be broken. NASA
data showed
May to be the second hottest on record, barely trailing 2016 by
one-tenth of a degree, and this was the second-warmest spring on
record, again only behind 2016. The first five months of this year
make it likely that this will be the second
hottest year on record,
again only behind last year.

Meanwhile,
parts of Antarctica are literally
beginning to turn green,
as scientists there are finding a four- to five-fold increase in the
amount of moss growth on the ice continent's northern peninsula.